Hi from a total openSUSE and AMAROK newbie,
(try to get away from Windows stuff...)

first of all thanks to all the admins and folks who do provide help and informations here. I surely aprecciate that. Unfortunately I cannot provide valuable info (yet) to the forum, other than asking questions which might be of interest for others (I hope),

Here is my problem:
I am running a NAS http://www.level-one.de/levelone.php?page=prod&cat=7005&model=GNS-4000&show=downloads#tabs to store my Linux and Windows data.
My client OS is openSUSE 11.2

I easily can connect to this device and browse the files via Dolphin. I can also put the music directory into the network "places".

However...
if I want to configure AMAROK collection to use this directory and subdierectories, I simply can't find it in the collections folder list, nor can I add a network folder or device.

My NAS also acts as a DLNA server btw.

So I'd really aprecciate any help on how to get my music into amaraks collection w/o copying all teh music tracks.

Thanks a lot

J.

found a solution...
just added my NAS as NFS store, added a mount point, done.
Keen to see how AMAROK handles several thousand tracks in th ecollection, compared to WINAMP under XP. (Hope AMAROK is more convenient)
J.

Jakko wrote:found a solution...
just added my NAS as NFS store, added a mount point, done.
Keen to see how AMAROK handles several thousand tracks in th ecollection, compared to WINAMP under XP. (Hope AMAROK is more convenient)

Due to MySQL (Embedded) usage and other factors, Amarok has no problem with handling many thousands of tracks in the collection. So that should work out fine.

Just keep in mind that NFS makes it all a bit IO-bound, that is, it will take longer than scanning a local disk (much longer, probably).

Hello,
Sorry to interfere but I have same setup, but are having problems with the collection on the nas, when connecting from a wireless connected notebook. I have to fully rescan the collection on every boot. Any solutions to this?

- tarp

tarp wrote:collection on the nas, when connecting from a wireless connected notebook. I have to fully rescan the collection on every boot. Any solutions to this?

I can't say what I'm doing different, but I don't have the same problem with my NAS.
My collection is ~55.000 songs, and it works quite well with Amarok (2.2.1, external MySql) on my wireless laptop.
Only problem I have is that Amarok "freezes" now and then for 15-20 sec (which is bad enough, though).

Göran Jartin wrote:

tarp wrote:collection on the nas, when connecting from a wireless connected notebook. I have to fully rescan the collection on every boot. Any solutions to this?

I can't say what I'm doing different, but I don't have the same problem with my NAS.
My collection is ~55.000 songs, and it works quite well with Amarok (2.2.1, external MySql) on my wireless laptop.
Only problem I have is that Amarok "freezes" now and then for 15-20 sec (which is bad enough, though).

The freezing issue might be fixed in 2.2.2-final (soon to be released), if it is the issue that I assume it is.

One of our developers has recently committed a patch to make some things multi-threaded, which helps a lot with these annoying GUI blocking problems.